Aucbvax.6840
fa.info-vax
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Wed Apr 21 17:28:56 1982
Foreign command line
>From GZ@MIT-MC Wed Apr 21 17:20:16 1982
This is really a crock but if you get the command line with CLI, the program
name is there, before the pointer returned to you.  I.e. it looks something
like this

      UMENU FOO FIE
            ^
            Your pointer.

Just back up the pointer to the first non-alphabetic character (usually a
rubout it seems). I do</PRE>
<HR>
This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:
<P>
1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.
<BR>
2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:
<P>
<EM>The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright&copy 1981, 1996 
<BR> Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.</EM>
<P>
<HR>
<BR>Return to <A HREF="FA.info-vax-index.html">FA.info-vax index</A>
<BR>Return to the 
	<A HREF="../index.html">Usenet Oldnews Archive index</A>
</HTML>

-----------------------------------------------------------------
 gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
 of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/


This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:

1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.

2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 
 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.